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DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI DR-Expert Motherboard

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 DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI DR Expert
Manufacturer DFI
Category Motherboard
Socket Socket-939
Chipset NForce4 SLI
Editor Winston Chim


"If you're an enthusiast, you don't need to look any where else ... the DFI Lanparty UT NF4 SLI DR-Expert has it all."

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DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI DR-Expert Motherboard
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Features and Specifications

Features and Specifications

 

 

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CPU
  • AMD® Athlon 64 X2 / Athlon 64 FX / Athlon 64 / Sempron
  • Socket 939

 

Front Side Bus
  • 2000MT/s HyperTransport interface

 

Chipset
  • NVIDIA nForce4 SLI - Supports NVIDIA SLI (Scalable Link Interface)

 

Memory
  • Four 184-pin DDR SDRAM DIMM sockets
  • Supports dual channel (128-bit wide) memory interface
  • Supports up to 4GB system memory
  • Supports PC2100 (DDR266), PC2700 (DDR333) and PC3200 (DDR400) DDR SDRAM DIM
 
SLI / Single VGA Mode
  • SLI mode - Use 2 SLI-ready PCI Express x16 graphics cards (use identical cards) on the PCI Express x16 slots. - Each x16 slot operates at x8 bandwidth. When the graphics cards are connected via the SLI bridge, the total bandwidth of the two graphics cards is x16.
  • Single VGA mode - 1 PCI Express graphics card on the PCIE1 slot operates at x16 bandwidth. - The other PCI Express x16 slot (PCIE4) operates at x2 bandwidth.

 

Expansion Slots
  • 2 PCI Express x16 slots
  • 1 PCI Express x1 slot
  • 1 PCI Express x4 slot
  • 3 PCI slots

 

BIOS
  • Award BIOS
  • CMOS Reloaded
  • CPU/DRAM overclocking
  • CPU/DRAM/Chipset overvoltage
  • 4Mbit flash memory

 

Power Management
  • Supports ACPI STR (Suspend to RAM) function
  • Wake-On-Events include: - Wake-On-PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse - Wake-On-USB Keyboard/Mouse - Wake-On-LAN - RTC timer to power-on the system
  • AC power failure recovery

 

Hardware Monitor
  • Monitors CPU/system/chipset temperature
  • Monitors 12V/5V/3.3V/Vcore/Vbat/5Vsb/Vchipset/Vdram voltages
  • Monitors the speed of the CPU fan, Fan 2 and Fan 3 fan
  • CPU Overheat Protection function monitors CPU temperature during system boot-up

 

 Audio
  • Karajan audio module - Realtek ALC850 8-channel AC’97 audio CODEC - 6 audio jacks - 1 CD-in connector - 1 front audio connector
  • True stereo line level outputs
  • S/PDIF-in/out interface

 

LAN
  • Dual Gigabit LAN - Vitesse VSC8201 Gigabit Phy and Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit PCI
  • Fully compliant to IEEE 802.3 (10BASE-T), 802.3u (100BASE-TX) and 802.3ab (1000BASE-T) standards

 

IDE
  • Supports two IDE connectors that allows connecting up to four UltraDMA 133Mbps hard drives
  • NVIDIA RAID allows RAID arrays spanning across Serial ATA and Parallel ATA
  • RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and JBOD
 
Serial ATA with RAID
  • Four Serial ATA ports supported by the nForce4 SLI chip - SATA speed up to 3Gb/s - RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and JBOD - NVIDIA RAID allows RAID arrays spanning across Serial ATA and Parallel ATA
  • Four Serial ATA ports supported by the Silicon Image Sil 3114 chip - SATA speed up to 1.5Gb/s - RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and RAID 5

 

IEEE 1394 (Firewire)
  • VIA VT6307
  • Supports two 100/200/400 Mb/sec ports

 

Rear Panel I/O Ports
  • 1 mini-DIN-6 PS/2 mouse port
  • 1 mini-DIN-6 PS/2 keyboard port
  • 2 S/PDIF RCA jacks (S/PDIF-in and S/PDIF-out)
  • Karajan audio module (6 audio jacks)
  • 1 IEEE 1394 port
  • 2 RJ45 LAN ports
  • 6 USB 2.0/1.1 ports

 

I/O Connectors
  • 2 connectors for 4 additional external USB 2.0/1.1 ports
  • 1 connector for 1 external IEEE 1394 port
  • 1 connector for 1 external serial port
  • 1 connector for the Karajan audio module
  • 1 front audio connector for external line-out and mic-in jacks (on the Karajan audio module)
  • 1 CD-in internal audio connector (on the Karajan audio module)
  • 1 S/PDIF connector for optical cable connection
  • 1 IrDA connector
  • 8 Serial ATA connectors
  • 2 IDE connectors
  • 1 floppy connector
  • 1 24-pin ATX power connector
  • 1 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
  • 1 4-pin 5V/12V power connector (FDD type)
  • 1 front panel connector
  • 5 fan connectors
  • 4 diagnostic LEDs
  • EZ touch switches (power switch and reset switch)

 

PCB
  • ATX form factor
  • 24cm (9.45") x 30.5cm (12")

 

More information can be found on DFI's Website

DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 SLI-DR Expert exclusive features

 

  • AMD socket939 Athlon FX55+ & Athlon X2 CPU supported
  • Software control SLI switch
  • Karajan Audio(Theater like7.1/8ch Audio)
  • Dual Gigabit LAN
  • Magnetic-levitate fan on chipset heatsink
  • 4 x Serial ATA-2(3Gb/s)
  • 100% Japanese Capacitors/ 4 phase PWM
  • UV sensitive slots
  • EZ-on / EZ-touch onboard switch button
  • Silicon image3114~RAID5 ready
  • nVIDIA nTune (embedded overclocking solution)
  • nVIDIA ActiveArmor (Embedded hardware firewall & network solution)
  • CMOS Reloaded®
  • All New Genie BIOS for extreme overclocking!

 

The cutting-edge DFI high-end series “LANPartyUT” is dedicated to the LAN party & case mod culture, which has been a phenomenon among global PC users. Every model of LANPARTY series has sported the most groundbreaking concepts and technologies and thus has made its performance and design just irresistible.

To make LAN gamers fashion leaders and bring more fun for them, DFI designs the UV sensitive accessories and the stylish black PCB and creates LANPARTY series. With UV Sensitive Illuminated System, LANPartyUT glows under the UV cold cathode light, and thus put LANPARTY owners in the spotlight by catching everyone’s eye during LAN parties.

 

 

 

Nvidia nForce SLIx16 Specifications

Taken from Nvidia's website ...

"NVIDIA nForce®4 SLI media and communications processors (MCPs) offer blistering graphics and system performance and overall PC performance for both AMD and Intel platforms.  With the power of NVIDIA SLI™ technology you can connect two NVIDIA SLI-Ready PCI Express® graphics cards for mind-blowing gameplay with brilliant and intensive 3D graphics. You can even use the second PCI Express slot to take advantage of future technologies that will be designed around the PCI Express standard.

The unique low-latency architecture of the NVIDIA nForce4 SLI MCPs offers one of the industry’s best core-logic solution with outstanding performance that features the latest technologies—SLI, PCI Express, secure high-speed networking, and high-performance storage—and ensures that your PC stays ready for the newest games, future applications, and next-generation PC specifications."

More on Nvidia's nForce4 SLI chipset ... read more.

 

 

What is NVIDIA SLI Technology?

NVIDIA® SLI™ technology is a revolutionary platform innovation that allows you to intelligently scale graphics performance by combining multiple NVIDIA graphics solutions in a single system with an NVIDIA nForce® SLI media and communications processor (MCP).

How Does SLI Technology Work?

Using proprietary software algorithms and dedicated scalability logic in each NVIDIA graphics processing unit (GPU) and MCP, NVIDIA SLI technology delivers up to twice the performance of a single graphics solution.

More information on SLI can be found here ... read more.

 

  

 

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